Wednesday, May 23, 2012

They always call themselves things like "Liberty Council" or "The Religious Freedom Coalition," or some such nonsense.

What "freedoms" or :liberties" do they supposedly support?

The freedom of same-sex couples to marry? Not on your life!

The freedom of women to control their own reproductive stuff? Hah! Good one!

The freedom of adults to smoke pot or do whatever they do with other drugs? Get real!

They certainly don't support the freedom of Muslims to build mosques in NYC. They don't support the freedom from warrantless wiretapping, as long as their guy is running the program anyway.

So is it just cynical marketing, like they know they don't support freedom just like McDonalds knows that their food doesn't taste good, but who's going to buy it if they admit that?

Or do they just have a different definition of freedom than us normal people?

I think they really do stand up for freedom, just not the kind of freedom a sane person should want. They believe in the freedom of the strong to oppress the weak, the rich to oppress the poor, the corporation to oppress human beings. And that's why they always tout "small government," because government interferes with that.

They stand for the freedom of insurance companies to deny you coverage.
They stand for the freedom of power companies to spew coal smoke into our air.
They stand for the freedom of straight kids to bully the gay kids.
They support the freedom of employers to pay you whatever wage they damn well want to.
And they support the freedom of those employers to create unsafe working conditions if they feel like it.
They support the freedom of agri-business to give you salmonella in your eggs.